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Twenty days from Friday, Spokane’s most notorious criminal is likely to be released from the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island, and The Center Square has learned that Kevin Coe is …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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9/12/25
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Washington state’s most recent carbon auction brought in an estimated $446 million, according to results released by the state Department of Ecology. As of Friday, Washington state has the …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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9/12/25
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School is finally back in session following a three-week delay at Evergreen Public Schools in southwest Washington, after unionized staff approved a deal with district administrators.
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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9/12/25
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BELLEVUE — Top U.S. House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries traveled here Friday to decry rising health insurance costs he says are driven by recent actions from congressional Republicans and the Trump …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/12/25
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The Washington Office of the Secretary of State announced it will fund Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center, or MS-ISAC, memberships for county auditors, which it argues will help …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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9/12/25
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Washington state Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu will retire from the bench at the end of this year.
Yu, appointed in 2014, told fellow justices Thursday afternoon after informing Gov. Bob …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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9/12/25
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TACOMA — A former Washington state worker who admitted to embezzling nearly $900,000 in taxpayer funding to finance his gambling addiction was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/12/25
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Northwest states, tribes and environmental groups will resume suing the federal government over its hydroelectric dam operations in the Columbia River Basin that have harmed endangered native fish …
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By Alex Baumhardt and Emily Fitzgerald / States Newsroom
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9/12/25
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Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank says he “won’t be silenced” despite coming under the microscope of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission following a …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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9/11/25
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Standardized test scores for Washington public school students improved slightly this year, according to data the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction released Wednesday.
But the …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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9/11/25
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Bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced a bill designed to give immigrant farm workers an opportunity to pursue temporary legal status in the United States.
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act …
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By Andrew Rice / The Center Square
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9/11/25
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Convicted triple murderer Timothy Pauley could, at least technically, get another chance at freedom.
The Indeterminate Sentence Review Board is again considering his case because when former …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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9/11/25
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Thousands of Washington Army National Guard members did not take part in last weekend’s drill, a money-saving move that appears precipitated in part by the Trump administration clawing back …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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9/11/25
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A Spokane jury has ordered Washington state to pay $42 million to a woman the state failed to protect from years of childhood sexual abuse.
The striking payout in Jessica Hilton’s case …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/11/25
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Washington tribal leaders and environmental advocates are speaking out against the Trump administration’s plan to repeal protections for 2 million acres of national forests in the state.
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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9/10/25
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Despite pushback from the free-market Washington Policy Center think tank, the Washington State Department of Ecology is standing by its official rebuke of the Trump administration’s rollback …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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9/9/25
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Truck drivers traveling through Washington are getting new technological tools to help find open parking spots in rest areas and weigh stations on Interstate 5.
A new program starting this month …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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9/9/25
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The Pasco City Council will interview four candidates on Monday to fill a vacancy ahead of the next election. However, there’s still a chance the former mayor may return for another term.
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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9/9/25
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Small business owners in most of the U.S. feel more upbeat, according to the National Federation of Independent Business’ Small Business Optimism Index for August, which increased by half a …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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9/9/25
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The conservative political group that has been trying to bolster parental rights in Washington schools will try again.
Let’s Go Washington on Monday announced it will begin gathering …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/8/25
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